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editor or transcriptionist? - jagger

Posted: Oct 11, 2009

What do most people like, editing or transcribing? Just curious.

Editor or Transcriptionist? - MightyMom

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I do both for two different companies. I prefer TRANSCRIBING!!!

Editor or Transcriptionist - CozMom

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I've done both and definitely prefer transcription. I have yet to see how voice recognition saves time, as I find it tedious and time consuming to edit. So why do they want to pay editors 40 to 50% less than transcriptionists? That infuriates me!

editing versus transcribing - 7dayMT

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Do you mean editing speech rec reports or editing as a QA person?
I prefer transcribing as I like typing better than correcting and think it's better money - although it depends on the VR program. Right now I do 90% VR.
I only did editing (as in QA) when I was asked to help out with it for a few months a couple of years ago. I liked it, but did not make nearly as much money as I did transcribing because I had to do a full listen on all the reports - they were training newbies. When the newbies got better, though, editing becamse more boring - fewer blanks to fill in and less to correct.

Edit versus straight MTing - .

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Don't confuse editing with being QA (text already transcribed and you proof it).
Editing is voice recognition and you unscramble junk and "create" the report for them at a considerably low pay rate.

You are putting in caps and periods and taking out where they do not belong, deleting wrong text and retyping it in.
Because there were so 000 many changes needed, I felt obliged to rewind and relisten AGAIN to each report before submitting. Total waste of time.

I did not like it as it created me more work than regular transcribing and I was worn out with the extra keystrokes needed that were not used in regular MTing.

AND, for all there you make 40,60, 90% less money, same skill needed, but much less income. It pays 2, 2.5, 3, 4 cents a line and you have to listen through and correct (edit) a whole lot of line to still making zip. Can figure it up how many lines to make such and such $$$.

Say 400 lines an hour to listen and edit equals?$ an hour. EVERY HOUR

Editing versus straight transcription - VR lover

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Unlike the above, I never have to retype lines, never listen back to reports once finished, spell check and let it go, complete waste of my time and no wonder a person could not make money this way. I do approximately 90% VR now and it works wonders with ESLs, in fact right away when I first started on it. My reports are never junk, even what my human ears are struggling to hear, VR is picking it up. I can average $20.00 or better per hour so even at that 4 cpl, if you are good at this there is opportunity to make money. I am very glad I learned this several years ago.

If that's true, then I'm sure you won't mind - sm

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sharing which platform and/or company you've found to be so wonderful.

In my experience, it takes nearly the same amount of time to correct VR as it does to just transcribe the report, yet they want to pay about half as much. No thanks.

You are contradicting yourself - VR lover

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You first asked me to share platform and/or company and at the end you say no thanks? Some can do this work better than others. When people close their mind to technology, I find these do not do well with VRing. Probably best for you to stick to straight - if you can continue to find that in the future.

It's not a contradiction to - sm

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say my experience has been awful and ask which companies/platforms you've found that are supposed to be so much better, but as I suspected, you have no answer to that.

Giving out the names of companies already talked about - VR lover

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Oh, I have answers to both but as stated here yesterday or the day before by someone else, would it make sense for me to name a company where I make a decent living with and loving the company, for others to jump on. Others have to find their own fit because I am not giving that information out. I have only worked on 1 platform and that is Editscript- may go as Escription.

Escription - 7dayMT

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Escription is the best VR program I have used (I have used 2 others). I won't say I make as much as I did with straight transcription at 10 cpl and with lots of templates and Shorthand entries, but it's not Wal-Mart wages either. Since Escription is used by several different companies, the line rate varies.

Transcribing 1000 times over editing - Zville MT

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Editing just made me depressed and irritated. It didn't pay well, for starters, and you also get to see the crappy work (especially those who work for companies that outsource), as well as then have to fix that crappy work.

I was an editor for almost three years and I was never so happy as when I resigned and went back to transcribing.

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